China

China-India geopolitical competition has notably shaped Indian domestic and foreign policy for decades – as it still does.

The “whitelist” policy was supposed to restore financing to stalled projects. So why have housing completion and financing rates both dropped?

How China manages the challenges it faces, and how the region responds, will shape Asia’s future trajectory.

The CCP’s religious and cultural repression on the Tibetan Plateau is also feeding an ecological crisis. The response from the world has been a deafening silence. 

While the proposed hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River has sparked concerns in India, from China’s perspective it is mostly motivated by domestic factors.

Beijing hopes to benefit from tensions created by the Trump administration, but China will have to change its own approach to capitalize. 

China is increasingly using humanitarian tools to increase its maritime presence abroad.

His discussions with Chinese leaders will focus on issues such as a long-desired cross-border railway and the coal trade, with domestic politics lurking in the background.

Islamabad is growing more desperate even as Beijing views CPEC with increasing skepticism.

China’s economic woes, and a general lack of trust exacerbated by corruption scandals, are driving a downward trend in charitable giving.

The U.S. alliance network is its greatest advantage in the competition with China. But Washington can hardly count on its allies if it treats them worse than the way it treats its systemic rival.

Over the course of two decades, China has built a public health aid program for the world, turbocharged by the pandemic. As the U.S. retreats, China will only garner more influence globally.